Following the initial reveal of its top-end Ryzen Threadripper CPUs in May, AMD has finally revealed prices and a release window for the chips. Threadripper will land in "early August" in two varieties, with prices starting at $799 and topping out at $999.

The $799 Threadripper 1920X will include 12 cores and 24 threads, a 3.5 GHz base clock and a 4.0 GHz boost. At the top-end, the $999 Threadripper 1950X steps things up a notch with 16 cores and 32 threads, with a 3.4 GHz base clock and a 4.0 GHz boost. Both chips are also unlocked, allowing you to overclock to boost performance even further.

If you're a fan of Team Red, that's sure to be good news when compared to Intel's latest Core i9 chips. While Intel's top-end i9-7980XE chips does have AMD beat in terms of core and thread count with 18 cores and 36 threads, it also costs twice as much at $1,999.

In addition to new details on Threadripper, AMD also revealed more about its lower-end Ryzen 3 series of chips. Ryzen 3 chips will come in two flavors, the Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200, and both pack 4 cores and 4 threads. As far as clock speeds go, the 1300X comes with a base clock of 3.5 GHZ and boost of 3.7 GHz, while the 1200 carries a base clock of 3.1 GHZ and boost of 3.4 GHz. Ryzen 3 will go on sale on July 27, AMD says, but pricing has yet to be revealed.

How's Intel on its toes? Their responses so far have been a doubly pricey i9 and lengthening their node to a fourth generation with Coffee Lake. It doesn't seem like Intel has done a single theing to provide a compelling product against the Zen-based CPUs.

Currently planning a Ryzen build, will be my first with AMD as well. I love that they are competing head-to-head with Intel now and, importantly, are making bigger steps in architecture. Choosing Ryzen over Skylake-X specifically because the 140W TDP and bad thermals of Skylake-X indicate a real need to make the architecture more efficient to move forward.

I can tell you I've had nothing close to a problem with my CPU or GPU's (except a busted fan that may have been my fault but gigabyte fixed it anyway) I had always shyed away from AMD for fear of the unknown. Now I'm even on both names. The day I decide to build ill research benchmarks and have fun reading all the articles.

All I can say is go for it guys my 1800x is awesome, gaming on a 25w usage at high frame rates is awesome. Admittedly it is star trek only, which the amd core never go to 10% at 2.1ghz but still push the frames, I call it efficient and happy power and speed